National Oceanography Centre Open Day

The National Oceanography Centre in Southampton is hosting its annual open day on Saturday 21st May 2016.

The world leading science undertaken at the NOC focuses on marine science “From Coast to Deep Ocean”. To enable this to take place they work with many other national centres and partners.

For the first time, they have invited these centres and partners to join them and show visitors the varied and exciting world of SCIENCE.

Rooks meet creatures from 'The Deep'!

Today, Rooks were able to meet some real-life vertebrates and invertebrates from the Twilight part of the ocean.  Dr Horton (Frank's Mum) visited the class with a number of amazing specimens.  The children were enthralled by the different creatures on display.

The class favourite however, had to be the amphipod - both the cuddly and preserved.

Here are some photographs of our afternoon to share with you.

Thank you again Dr Horton for sharing your knowledge with us.
Rooks Class

DRAGONS' DEN!

Year 5 children are taking part in Virgin Bank's "Grow your money" project, where they have been given £5 each to  invest in a product to sell at the School Summer Fayre in their teams.  They pitched their ideas to our 3 visiting "Dragons" who gave them some help and support to fine-tune their ideas into something that will work to make the best profit.  Look out for their stalls at the up-coming Summer Fayre in July.

ROCKET SEEDS HAVE GERMINATED!

At Bitterne Manor we are taking part in the "Seeds from space" project growing 200 rocket plant  seeds - 100 that have been in space and 100 that have not.  We don't know which is which until the experiment is complete.  We can now report that we have had lots of seeds that have germinated!  Our space biologists calculated last week that 60% of the red seeds germinated, but only 47% of the blue seeds have germinated.  We are now looking for the first "true" leaves to grow to make the next set of recordings.

Planting our Broadbeans!

Today we decided that our Broadbeans were ready to plant outside. Some of them are already 20cm tall! But before we could plant them outside we needed to write in our Bean diary. We looked closely to describe what our beans looked like and then drew a picture.

Garden Project

This week some of the children in Robins class have been lucky enough to start improving the patio areas outside the classrooms. We have been doing this along a fully funded project called The Solent Way. The Solent Way decided they would like to offer a school near the coast some funding towards a project in their school grounds. Mrs Rice contacted them and said we were interested, they visited, liked us and bingo!! Please check out the work they having been doing. Its going to look great!

Owls Swimming...!

Well done to Owls who've completed their swimming course today. They seem to have thoroughly enjoyed themselves and made some superb progress. Today was a fun session which they clearly made the most of!